How AI Is Helping States Cut Through Decades of Red Tape | Stanford HAI

Stanford researchers scanned 500 million words of state law to reveal the stunning growth of reporting requirements, and are now giving governments a tool to clean them up.

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Neukom Center for the Rule of Law | Stanford Law School

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AI Civic Action Accelerator - Aspen Policy Academy

This 6 session, part-time, free program helps individuals and teams refine and strengthen a partially developed policy solution to an environmental problem.

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‘Welcome home’: New Americans begin their journey as US citizens | Cornell Chronicle

Vardan Khachatryan and Lilit Abrahamyan did not plan to stay in the U.S. when they left Armenia in 2016 and moved to Virginia. That changed in 2018, when they arrived in Ithaca.

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What Research Actually Looks Like for Undergraduate Data Scientists — School of Data Science

Deloitte-funded research opportunities are giving UVA BSDS students experience tackling real problems, from healthcare to street safety to 3D generative models.

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AI is rapidly changing education and research needs to keep up | Brookings

Stacey Alicea and Meghan McCormick outline three principles for building credible evidence on AI in classrooms.

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The Bachelor’s Degree: A Human Operating System

The bachelor’s degree has been one of the most successful social inventions in modern history. For generations, we’ve thought about the degree as a finished product. That's the wrong way to think abou...

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Introducing the 2026 Cohort of the Siegel PiTech PhD Impact Fellowship | PiTech

Written by Kate Nicholson, PiTech Initiative Director of Programs and Partnerships

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Measuring what matters: New Stanford white paper provides a roadmap for creating responsible student assessments in the AI era • Stanford Accelerator for Learning

AI is changing what, where, and how testing happens. How can schools, teachers, and test developers respond?

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An Open Letter to the New NYC PIT Crew - Beeck Center

Read our letter to the New York City's Public Interest Technology (PIT) Crew.

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New initiative expands educator training beyond campus

With the launch of PLEX, Stanford’s Graduate School of Education expands access to professional development programs for teachers, school leaders, and other educators.

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How Harvard Medical School Helps Prepare High School, College Students To Become Doctors and Scientists

Online pre-med and pre-college courses provide real-world experience, guidance

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Seidman-Becker gift supports Duke students seeking careers in federal public service - Made for This: The Duke Campaign

A $5 million gift from Caryn Seidman-Becker will establish the Becker Government Leadership Initiative at the Sanford School of Public Policy to encourage and support Duke student interest in public s...

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Undergrads from colleges across the U.S. come to RIT for summer research

National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) sites are bringing the country’s top college students to RIT for summer research.

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Universities Must Rethink AI Education for the AI Economy

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the workforce, from ambient note‑taking and AI‑assisted drug discovery to automated cybersecurity testing and product design. As employers increasi...

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Civil Society and Nonprofits | Stanford HAI

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Penn pilots secure AI portal with Claude, ChatGPT models

The pilot is expected to conclude in mid-August with the launch of an official AI service.

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AI didn’t break higher education—It exposed the credential trap | Fortune

As tuition soars past crisis levels and AI reshapes the classroom, students are rationally optimizing for diplomas over discovery. Call it the degree trap.

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NYC’s PIT Crews Could Become a National Model for Better Government

Technology’s success should be measured by how it improves people’s lives

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Meet Neil H. Shubin, the New President of the National Academy of Sciences

YouTube video by National Academy of Sciences

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Graduating without a thesis: meet the people getting ‘practical’ PhDs in China

Nature spoke to three students from China’s first cohort of PhD candidates who are allowed to graduate with products instead of papers.

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A new study looks at the skills journalists are losing (and gaining) because of AI tools

Last year, MIT's Media Lab came out with a buzzy study on a phenomenon that’s been coined “cognitive debt.” In short, the researchers found that when ChatGPT users offloaded essay writing tasks to the...

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What Is Civic Education For?

Teaching students how to think, not what to think.

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Conversations on Civic Education

Themes from the June APSA Teaching and Learning Symposium at Georgetown University

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